Andrew C. McGibbon

Andrew C. McGibbon has spent the past thirty years working in live theatre as a stage manager, general manager, producer and leader in the convergence of Broadway and online.

Mr. McGibbon worked as a stage manager and general manager for ten years. In 1994 he created a website devoted to live theatre, BroadwayWorld-Wide.com. The site was subsequently bought by, and became Playbill.com. He continued to manage the site for Playbill for four years. In 2000 he became the website manager for TonyAwards.com. With the 2008-09 season he finished his ninth year on the show. He has also worked as a webmaster for the Broadway League and Jazz at Lincoln Center. He is presently the Director of Digital Media for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

Producers are pleased to announce that Jay Records will record the cast album of the limited engagement of PAGEANT in October. This will be the first ever cast-recording of the critically-acclaimed musical with book and lyrics by two-time Tony nominee Bill Russell (Side Show) and Frank Kelly, and music by Albert Evans. The cast of tiara-crazed beauties includes Nick Cearley (“The Skivvies”), Nic Cory (Signs of Life), Alex Ringler (West Side Story), Marty Thomas (Wicked, Xanadu), Seth Tucker (Our Kiki), and Curtis Wiley (Motown),with John Bolton (A Christmas Story, “Gossip Girl”) as the host.

Golden Globe-winner and six-time Emmy Award-nominee Elisabeth Moss (“Mad Men,” “Top of the Lake,” Speed-the-Plow) will star as the title role in the first Broadway revival of the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning Wendy Wasserstein play TheHeidi Chronicles beginning a limited engagement in February 2015. The play will also star Emmy Award-nominee Jason Biggs (“Orange Is The New Black,”American Pie) and Tony Award-nominee Bryce Pinkham (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), and will feature Tracee Chimo (“Orange Is The New Black,” Bad Jews) with additional casting to be announced. The Heidi Chronicles will begin rehearsals in January with an opening in early March at a theatre to be announced.

Rehearsals are currently underway for Lincoln Center Theater’s production of of Sarah Ruhl’s new playTHE OLDEST BOY. The play, directed by Rebecca Taichman, will begin previews Thursday, October 9 and open on Monday, November 3 in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (150 West 65 Street). Featured in the cast are Ernest Abuba, Tsering Dorjee, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Takemi Kitamura, James Saito, Jon Norman Schneider, James Yaegashi and Nami Yamamoto. (Please note that Mr. Yaegashi has replaced the previously announced Joel de la Fuente in the cast).

Golden Globe and Drama Desk Award winner Michael C. Hall will star in HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, the Tony Award winning Best Musical Revival, starting Thursday, October 16 at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th Street). HEDWIG will mark Hall’s first musical theatre role in over a decade having previously made acclaimed runs in the Broadway productions ofCabaret and Chicago.

THE BELLE OF AMHERST, William Luce’s acclaimed one-woman play of the private yet prolific poet Emily Dickinson, begins rehearsals today, September 8, for a new production starringGolden Globe Award® nominee Joely Richardson (“Nip/Tuck,” Side Effects) and directed by Steve Cosson (The Civilians, Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play).

This spring, Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy will reprise their critically acclaimed West End performances when the hit London production of David Hare’s SKYLIGHT,directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Stephen Daldry, comes to Broadway. The production, which played to sold-out houses when it opened in the West End in June, was hailed by The Mail on Sunday as “a scorching production—a brilliant play about changing and clashing values, and the true cost of love. . . . Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan are sublime,” while The Daily Telegraph called it “A thrilling modern classic,” adding, “There is a bruising, emotional truth in the writing, and a zinging, stinging mixture of wit and anger in this knockout production.”

ORIGINAL PRESIDENT AND FOUNDERGENE O’DONOVAN REMAINS AS A CONSULTANT TO AURORA

Gene O’Donovan, founder of Aurora Productions, one of Broadway’s major companies for theatrical production management and technical supervision, has announced his retirement from his position as President of the company. O’Donovan founded Aurora Productions in 1994 and he remains with the company both as a consultant and to foster additional business development. Ben Heller, currently Vice President of Aurora, succeeds O’Donovan as President of the company.